When 'Off the record' becomes 'On the record'

By MATT APUZZO


Filed 1.31.07, 2:45 PM, EST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testified Wednesday that a key conversation with White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case was off the record, a description that appeared to be at odds with his written account of the interview.

Cooper, the second reporter to testify at Libby's perjury and obstruction trial, recalled a July 12, 2003 telephone conversation in which he asked Libby whether prominent war critic Joseph Wilson's wife was behind a CIA-sponsored trip to investigate an Iraqi uranium deal.

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